Improvement in harvester-rakes



M. BUCKLES.

/ Harvester Rake. No. 93,049. Patented July 27-, 1869.

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FRANCISM. BUCKLES, OF AL'IONA, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO HIM- SELF AND JOHN A. STUCKEY, OF SAME PLACE.

Letters Patent N 93,049, dated July 27 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN HARVESTERQRAKIIS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Framers M. Buoirnns, of Altona, in the county of Knox, and State of Illinois, have invented certain .new and useful Improvements in Harvester-Rakes; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a portion of this specification, in which- Figure l is a plan or top view of my invention,

showing by black dotted lines two extreme positions of some of the parts;

Figure 2, a front elevation of the same;

Figure 3, an elevation and section in the line X X of fig. l; and

Figure 4 is a diagram, showing three positions of a portion of the invention. Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all of the figures.

The nature of this invention relates to? improvements in harvester-rakes; and

The invention consists in the combination and arrangement of levers, shafts, and pitmau, as hereafter fully described, for transmitting the motionsof a lever, operated by the driver, to a series of levers operating beneath a slatted platform, for the purpose of giving a vibratory or rectilinear reciprocating motion to the rake, which is attached thereto.

The invention also consists in the manner of conmeeting the chain of levers with the rake-head in such A A" represent the grain platform. A is the upper surface, and slotted, a a a, transversely for the rake-teeth U U U.

Z represents the caster-wheel, as usual, for supporting the platform.

0 is the drivers seat, and

B B are the usual wheels, in connection with the frame or body supporting it.

D is a lever, attached near its centre to the rod H, which is pivoted in the bearings F F, and

H" is a crank, on the rear end of rod H.

J is a pitman, connecting the crank H with the crank K on the rod K, which is pivoted to and passes along the side of the platform A, and is provided with crank K at the other end.

The crank K' is, in turn, pivoted to the pitman L,

which is, in turn, pivoted to the outer arm of the T- lever M. .7 The lever M is pivoted to the platform A at 'n, and

is connected with the chain of levers S S S S S S S, by the arms I and It.

The chain of levers s are attached to the platform A at S.

By giving a rocking motion to the lever D with the feet, or the hand lever E with the hands, (it being connected also with the shaft H,) it will be plainly seen that the series of levers S will be made to extend and-contract back and forth across the platform A, as shown in black dotted lines in fig. 1.

U"represents the rake-head, and U U U, the teeth thereof.

The ends of the rake-head are supported on the bars W W, and the teeth U extend up through the slots in the upper floor of the platform, shown at fig. 2. This slotted platform A- covers the series of levers S and P, and R and M. p

The link T connects the series of lovers S with the rake, by being pivoted at one end to the centre line of pivots of the lovers S, and the other end to one of the rake-teeth, and it will be seen that this arrangement will throw the rake-teeth into a horizontal position,

when the levers are drawn back and elevate and throw the teeth forward as the levers are extended, thereby taking the grain clean and straight from the platform in gavels of any desired size.

y y y are notches in the guard X, into which the rake-teeth U U U pass when drawn back.

prepresents arms or rods, extending across the platform A, and connected with one end of the lever D by hook s, levers i and h, and rod 0'", in such way that the motion of lever D, which throws the rake U" across the platform A, and deposits the gavel, .will, at the same time, depress the rods 1) to receive the falling grain until the rake passes back, when the rods 1) will be raised and permit the grain to drop on the platform.

g is a connecting-plate, between the frame, which supports the drivers seat and the platform AA, and

c is an upright, rising from the plate g to support the bearings ot the lever a", rod 75", and the end of the stay-rod d.

ff are braces between y and c.

G represents a'shield, attched to the frame or body, and bracedby the rod (1, and in a position to receive the gavel and prevent it being scattered when thrown from the platform A.

V V represent arms, connecting the levers S with the rake-head at the eyes V"V, for the purpose of keeping the rake-head at right angles with its line of motion.

Having thus described my invention,

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination and arrangement of the lever S S S S S S S, and rake-head U, and rods V V, substan- D, shaft H, pitman J, shaft K, rod L, levers M, P, tially as pescribed and for the purpose set; forth. and R, for giving the motion to the chainof levers Signed at Galesburg, Illinois, this 24th day of Jan- S S S S S S S, and operating in combination with the uary, 1869. I

said chain of levers, substantially as described and for Witnesses: FRANCIS M. BUGKLES. the purpose set forth. J. B. HARSH,

2. The link T, combined with the chain of levers PLAT'I. B. RICHARDS. 

